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Robert Boyer

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+46 73 084 21 27

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robert.boyer@ri.se

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Göteborg

Robert Boyer is a Senior Researcher in Sustainable Business at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden.

He earned his PhD in Regional Planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013. Boyer has published research in diverse areas, connected by an overarching theme of sharing and other cooperative strategies for sustainability. His focus at RISE is on Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and the Circular Economy. Before moving to Sweden in early 2019, he served on the faculty of Geography & Earth Sciences at University of North Carolina-Charlotte, where his research focused primarily on sustainable community development, grassroots innovation, and urban bicycling.

His full publication record can be viewed on Google Scholar https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=pB05ytUAAAAJ&hl=en.

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Quality housing for all!

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Consumer Demand for Circular Urban Living (CDCUL)

Do consumers perceive homes as more valueable if they include access to sharing services? CDCUL is a multi-national research project that will use choice modelling and other methods to determine whether consumers are willing to pa…

Sustainable Interior UDI step 3

The Sustainable Interior project is a UDI project step 3, with the goal of developing a market-ready certification for sustainable interiors.

Digital Decision Support for Refurbishment (2DSR)

Decision-making in the circular economy can be challenging due to reverse logistics and lack of readily available data. The 2DSR project will build a decision support system (DSS) for actors in the furniture sector. The machine le…

Chemical Safety to Support Circular Economy (CHESS)

Sweden’s goal is to become climate-neutral by 2045. This requires a transformation of the whole society, and challenges must be tackled urgently. The transition from a linear to a circular economy (CE) carries such a transformatio…

Measuring circular business models

How do we measure the cost effectiveness of circular economy? Does higher circular economy performance increase demand? How do we increase the spread of circular business models in society (via measurement)? These are the themes f…

How can companies measure and follow up circular strategies?

As with all other changes, a transition to circular business models must be followed up and measured. But which indicators and key figures are actually best? Robert Boyer, senior researcher at RISE, knows the answers.

Circularity indicators

Those that commit to circular transition should measure more. What is measured is managed. Plus, it will tell you if your efforts made any real difference.

Business model innovation for sustainability: Mobility as a Service

<p>Combined mobility services (also referred to as Mobility as a Service - MaaS) represent an opportunity to revolutionise passenger transportation and could potentially have significantly positive impacts related to the sus…